Bay Village is a city in western Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, the city is a western suburb of Cleveland and a portion of the Cleveland metropolitan area. The population was 16,163 at the 2020 census.

Before the first European-Americans arrived in the area around 1600, Erie Indians lived in Bay Village and the surrounding areas. The most important Indian trail in Ohio is present-day Lake Road, which is a main road in Bay Village. In that thesame century, what is now Bay Village, along in the same way as Avon Lake, Avon, and Westlake, was portion of one territory. This territory was future called by the whites in a indigenous language, “Xeuma”, a term in the region of meaning “those who came past us”.

The area belonged to Connecticut until 1803, the year in which Ohio became a state. Before 1803, the Connecticut Land Company sold and gave away land in the Place to Connecticut citizens, who had lost their homes and farms during the Revolutionary War. Because many had loose their homes to fires during the war, this new Place was named “the Firelands”. One surveyor later than the Connecticut Land Company was Moses Cleaveland. He came taking into consideration his friends on horseback from Connecticut and stopped at the Cuyahoga River later than his Indian guides in July 1796. The home was after that divided into five townships. The area between the Cuyahoga River and The Firelands to the west was laid out in 1806.

Joseph Cahoon approved in what is now Bay Village in 1810. Bay Village was allowance of the indigenous Dover Township, which comprised present-day Bay Village, Westlake, and portions of North Olmstead. By the incline of the 20th century, Dover would have a steadfast population of around 2,200, with part-time residents who owned summer cottages upon Lake Erie totaling to this total in the summer months. In 1901, landowners in northern Dover goaded an election to split from Dover Township, forming Bay Township. In 1903, Bay Village was incorporated, and the first mayor and council were elected. Ida Marie Cahoon, the last Cahoon descendant, died in 1917, leaving the family house and 115 acres of estate to the city which is known today as Cahoon Memorial Park. John Huntington, one of the native partners of Standard Oil Company, donated his summer land to the Cleveland Metroparks, which would well along become the Huntington Reservation. Bay Village became a city upon January 1, 1950, when it had reached a population of 6,917.